> On Nov 30, 2014, at 2:04 AM, René J.V. Bertin <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> It's probably more work than you want to do right now but for long-term
>> maintainability, it would be the way to go.
>
> That sounds interesting and a nice programming exercise (and very useful if
> lldb's "commandline API" is still evolving), but not something I can decide
> or implement easily just for the lldb backend.
One aside -- parsing text from the debugger is never stable, not with gdb, not
with lldb. A long time ago IDEs used to use the debugger and try to parse the
output ("annotated mode" in gdb would be an early example of trying to make it
more machine parseable for emacs). MI ("machine interface") was designed
exactly for this reason -- so an IDE would have a stable protocol to use when
communicating with the debugger.
Neither gdb nor lldb changes its output frequently -- but it does change over
time. Any debugger scripting based on regexp-matching the output from these
debuggers will break on occasion and will require maintenance.
J
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